National Panchayat Awards

About National Panchayat Awards:

• These awards are pivotal in recognizing and encouraging Panchayats for their efforts in poverty alleviation, health, child welfare, water conservation, sanitation, infrastructure, social justice, governance, and women empowerment.
• The primary objective is to encourage these Panchayats to excel further and inspire other rural local bodies to achieve their best, ultimately ensuring ease of living and sustainable, inclusive development in rural areas.
• The Ministry of Panchayati Raj MoPR has grouped the 17 SDGs into 9 LSDG themes and revamped the National Panchayat Awards based on these themes: Poverty-Free and Enhanced Livelihoods Panchayat, Healthy Panchayat, Child-Friendly Panchayat, Water-Sufficient Panchayat, Clean and Green Panchayat, Self-Sufficient Infrastructure in Panchayat, Socially Just and Socially Secured Panchayat, Panchayat with Good Governance , Women-Friendly Panchayat
• This award has been conferred under the following categories:
  • Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar (DDUPSVP): This award is for top-3 ranking GPs/Equivalent bodies for their outstanding performance under each of the above mentioned 9 award themes.
  • Nanaji Deshmukh Sarvottam Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar: This award is for top 3 Gram, Block and District Panchayats each for their aggregate performance under all the 9 award themes of DDUPSVP.
• Special categories of Awards:
  • Gram Urja Swaraj Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar is for top 3 GPs/Equivalent Bodies for their performance in adoption and usage of renewable sources of energy.
  • Carbon Neutral Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar is for top 3 GPs/Equivalent Bodies for their performance in adoption and usage of renewable sources of energy. This year, a total 3 awards have been conferred under this category.
  • Panchayat Kshamta Nirmaan Sarvottam Sansthan Puraskar is for 3 Institutions across the country who have provided institutional support to GPs in achieving LSDGs.

Q1: What is the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act 1996?

It was brought in as a response to the long-standing demands of the tribal communities in India for greater autonomy and control over their own affairs. PESA Act was enacted on 24 December 1996 to enable tribal self-rule in fifth schedule areas. The Act extended the provisions of Panchayats to the tribal areas of Fifth Schedule states. 

News: Hon’ble President Of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu to Confer National Panchayat Awards 2024 on 11th December at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi